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Mimi Czajka Graminski
Leaning
Mimi Czajka Graminski
Leaning
- Elm log, with paint and insect trails
- 4.8′ x 2.5’ (3’ from wall), 50 lb
- It has a bracket to attach it at the top to the metal post, and rebar extending into the ground at the bottom to stabilize it. The only maintenance required is to keep the grass around the bottom trimmed.
I am interested in the many paradoxes that exist simultaneously in our world – fragility and strength, transparency and opacity, vicissitudes of memory, beauty in flaws. I was drawn to the beauty of the patterns I found in this tree trunk, which are essentially flaws. I discovered that what created these intricate designs in the tree was also destroying it. The designs are made by various beetle species as they burrow into the trunk to create their families. While doing this they spread the fungus which causes Dutch Elm Disease which leads to the eventual death of the tree.
Mimi Czajka Graminski lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. She works in many media exploring light, color, and movement. Recent exhibits include those with Inspiration Art Group International at the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art and Arts Westchester. Exhibitions also include those at Cornell University, Lockwood Gallery, Window on Hudson. She currently is showing work at Bla-bla Projektraum in Berlin, Germany and Odetta Digital online and in Connecticut. She has received many awards and has been invited to residencies in Iceland, Finland and the UK. Her work was recently highlighted in the EcoArtSpace blog as well as the Dutch magazine Textiel Plus